Make That Interaction Count!

Make Your Figures Count

Your illustrations are a fingerprint of your entire research paper. It pays to learn the general principles of designing graphs and figures, which will help you present data persuasively in the smallest possible amount of space. This article describes some of the pioneering design principles of Edward Tufte and how you can use them to improve your graphics. How important are good illustrations?...

Make the technology count

In spite of advances in imaging techniques, PCNL continues to be a blind procedure. Gallbladder puncture during PCNL has been a described complication, sometime resulting in biliary peritonitis and even mortality [1]. Very few cases concerning conservative management of gallbladder puncture during PCNL have been reported in literature to date [2]. It is important to document the solid organ inj...

‘Games That Make Sense’: logic, language, and multi-agent interaction

Gabriel Sandu tells an appealing story of natural language viewed in terms of games and game theory, bringing together several strands from the philosophical, logical, and even computational literature. In this short invited note, I will take the cruising altitude a few levels up from his, and show you a panoramic picture where the clamour of the raw facts on the ground has become just soothing...

Make every mother and child count.

STAT--how to make every minute count.

Several years ago, our community teaching hospital identified a need to improve patient care by streamlining the study performance workflow and hastening communication of critical study results to clinicians. "STAT" studies are a carefully selected subset of imaging studies that are prioritized due to their utility in assessing for emergent conditions including cerebrovascular accidents, pneumo...